About the Journal
SKRIB: Critical Studies in Writing Programs and Pedagogy facilitates intercultural dialogue around the development of writing programmes, writing centres, and writing pedagogy in post-secondary institutions of higher learning around the world.
Having developed in response to the largely unidirectional flow of writing centre & composition program models outward from the United States, SKRIB calls for examinations of:
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in-country development and operation of writing programs and pedagogy;
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writing programs & pedagogy as cultural artifacts;
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cultural framings & histories of writing, rhetoric and their teaching;
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the past, present, and future of Western (especially US) linguistic, epistemic, institutional hegemonic forces;
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English as a commodity and colonizing force.
These examinations necessitate a critical approach to scholarship, foregrounding issues of colonialism, globalism, capitalism and neoliberalism, racism, ableism, as well as issues relating to patriarchy and gender inequality.
Values Statement
SKRIB: Critical Studies in Writing Programs and Pedagogy aspires to uphold the following values in its approach to administration and knowledge creation:
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Multilingual publishing without reproducing colonialist tendencies, habits, methodologies, or ideologies
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Inter- and trans-national dialogue and collaboration
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Critical frameworks that attend to relations of power
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International representation across editors and peer reviewers
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Open source & open access publishing
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Transparent open peer review focused on mentorship
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Accessible, equitable, and inclusive communication design
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Support for graduate student and junior scholar research
